Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies

Instructional content for this group of programs is defined in codes 22.0201 - 22.0299.

Degree Statistics

This program is offered at 160 institutions across the United States, with a total of 33453 degrees awarded annually.

Certificates Below Bachelor's

certificates awarded

Associate Degrees

degrees awarded

Bachelor's Degrees

155

degrees awarded

Post-Baccalaureate Certificates

970

certificates awarded

Master's Degrees

9,029

degrees awarded

Doctoral Degrees

936

degrees awarded

Other Awards

22,312

awards given

Top Schools for Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies

These institutions offer the most degrees in this program, ranked by total annual completions.

Rank	Institution	Degrees
1	University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA	2,220
2	Texas A & M University-College Station College Station, TX	1,845
3	Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MO	1,683
4	Georgetown University Washington, DC	1,644
5	New York University New York, NY	1,413
6	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	1,056
7	University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA	972
8	Arizona State University Digital Immersion Scottsdale, AZ	831
9	Florida State University Tallahassee, FL	783
10	Northwestern University Evanston, IL	735
11	University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus Norman, OK	729
12	Northeastern University Boston, MA	714
13	Loyola University Chicago Chicago, IL	702
14	University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	678
15	Boston University Boston, MA	642
16	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	591
17	Harvard University Cambridge, MA	546
18	Liberty University Lynchburg, VA	504
19	University of Miami Coral Gables, FL	429
20	George Washington University Washington, DC	426
21	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA	411
22	American University Washington, DC	378
23	Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe, AZ	369
24	Villanova University Villanova, PA	369
25	Fordham University Bronx, NY	366
26	Pepperdine University Malibu, CA	354
27	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL	345
28	Duke University Durham, NC	327
29	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	315
30	California Western School of Law San Diego, CA	291
31	Stanford University Stanford, CA	288
32	Temple University Philadelphia, PA	285
33	Drexel University Philadelphia, PA	261
34	University of Florida Gainesville, FL	261
35	Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH	249
36	Indiana University-Indianapolis Indianapolis, IN	249
37	Seton Hall University South Orange, NJ	243
38	Vermont Law and Graduate School South Royalton, VT	240
39	University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA	240
40	Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL	234
41	University of Chicago Chicago, IL	234
42	Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC	225
43	James Madison University Harrisonburg, VA	210
44	Emory University Atlanta, GA	207
45	Nova Southeastern University Fort Lauderdale, FL	198
46	Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, CA	189
47	University of Connecticut Storrs, CT	186
48	University of San Francisco San Francisco, CA	174
49	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Baton Rouge, LA	150
50	Florida International University Miami, FL	147
51	St. Thomas University Miami Gardens, FL	147
52	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh, PA	144
53	Lewis & Clark College Portland, OR	141
54	St. John's University-New York Queens, NY	138
55	University of Dayton Dayton, OH	135
56	DePaul University Chicago, IL	135
57	University of Maryland, Baltimore Baltimore, MD	135
58	University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT	132
59	The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL	126
60	University of California-Davis Davis, CA	126
61	Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN	126
62	University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville, VA	120
63	Hofstra University Hempstead, NY	120
64	Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX	117
65	University of St Thomas Saint Paul, MN	111
66	Widener University Chester, PA	108
67	University of Georgia Athens, GA	108
68	Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN	105
69	University of California-Irvine Irvine, CA	105
70	Albany Law School Albany, NY	102
71	University of Arizona Tucson, AZ	99
72	University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO	96
73	Yale University New Haven, CT	93
74	University of San Diego San Diego, CA	93
75	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN	90
76	University of Southern Maine Portland, ME	87
77	University of New Hampshire-Franklin Pierce School of Law Concord, NH	84
78	CUNY Graduate School and University Center New York, NY	84
79	Syracuse University Syracuse, NY	81
80	St. Mary's University San Antonio, TX	81
81	Cleveland State University Cleveland, OH	78
82	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	78
83	University of California College of the Law-San Francisco San Francisco, CA	78
84	Seattle University Seattle, WA	75
85	University of Houston Houston, TX	72
86	Hamline University Saint Paul, MN	69
87	Tulane University of Louisiana New Orleans, LA	69
88	University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI	69
89	Amherst College Amherst, MA	69
90	Missouri State University-Springfield Springfield, MO	68
91	Georgia State University Atlanta, GA	66
92	University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO	63
93	The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX	60
94	Suffolk University Boston, MA	60
95	University of the Pacific Stockton, CA	60
96	Yeshiva University New York, NY	60
97	University of Akron Main Campus Akron, OH	60
98	Samford University Birmingham, AL	57
99	Tufts University Medford, MA	54
100	Saint Anselm College Manchester, NH	51